Project acronym: Building Matters
The project is in the Erasmus + 2022 program, with Agreement no. 2022-1-RO01-KA220-VET-000087398, and will be implemented during 24 months in the period 01.10.2022-30.09.2024.
Partners from 6 countries are involved in the project, namely:
- Federația Generală a Sindicatelor FAMILIA, România
- Pedmede Somateio, Greece
- Gospodarska Zbornica Slovenije, Slovenia
- Knowledge and skills management center K&S Skopje, Macedonia
- Bildungszentren des Baugewerbes, Germany
- Istituto per l’instruzione professionale dei lavoratori edili della provincia di Bologna, Italy
- Pedmede Eco, Greece
The main goal is to deal with the risks of climate change during the transition of the construction sector, by building capacities for the use of sustainable construction materials.
The Knowledge and Skills Management Centre K&S Skopje is the main partner, responsible for creating a training program as well as developing teaching materials for sustainable building materials, as well as enabling digital learning through an e-learning platform.
- the stakeholders of the ecosystem should reorient their mindsets, operations, business models and capacities towards the environmental friendly trends.
- to create regional, local, national and transnational sustainable building materials’ alliances through facilitating knowledge transfer, stronger cooperation and joint actions between all key stakeholders
- to explore sustainable solutions in building materials as a response to the emerging material and prices crises faced within the sector
- to promote the adoption of sustainable mindsets, behaviours and approaches, for mitigating climate change transition risks of the construction sector
- to develop training activities to build green competences in sustainable decision making in building projects, and in implementing materials strategies that reduce lifecycle carbon emissions, which together will drive down both energy demand and emissions
- to help in modernizing the VET sector to accommodate the aforementioned trends and green sectoral competence needs resulted from the labour market
- to facilitate access to high quality learning opportunities by involving the provision of virtual, digital and blended learning opportunities, fostering the sharing of information, mutual learning and experience from each other
- to enable peer to peer by involving the provision of virtual, digital and blended learning opportunities, fostering the sharing of information, mutual learning and experience from each other.
- to produce a new model of doing business in the construction ecosystem by cultivating sustainable mindsets and enabling the efficient adoption of sustainable tools, approaches, and practices
The project aims to support awareness raising among key stakeholders on sustainable ways to mitigate climate change and transition risks in the construction sector. The project envisages the development of skills and competences in the green sector and sustainable building materials. This will be achieved through the introduction of forward-looking and innovative curricula and learning practises that are tailored to the needs of learners and enable sustainable behaviour change in line with the new European approach to construction.
Raise awareness of the need for key green skills and competences related to the use of building materials and better prepare VET providers to a dapt their training offer to changing skills needs, green and digital transformation and economic cycles.
The project will modernise VET by integrating green sector provision and promote local, national and transnational sustainable alliances to enable knowledge transfer and joint actions.
- Building Matters Flyer
- Building Matters brochure
- TRANSNATIONAL REPORT on the practices of Sustainable Building materials
- HANDBOOK on Sustainable Building Matterials curricula
- Newsletter No. 1
- Newsletter No. 2